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Adventuring in dictionaries : new studies in the history of lexicography / edited by John Considine.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lexicography--History.
- Lexicography.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day. The first five treat English and French lexicography in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Heberto Fernandez and Monique Cormier discuss the outside matter of French-English bilingual dictionaries; Kusujiro Miyoshi re-assesses the influence of Robert Cawdrey; John Considine uncovers the biography of Henry C...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliogrpahical references (p. [310]-360) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14196-5
- 1-4438-2626-X
- 9786613141965
- OCLC:
- 821179645
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